Portrait of Smiling Girl FacesThe BackPack Program

Second Harvest operates the BackPack Program at 50 sites within northwest Pennsylvania. This program provides children with nutritious, child-friendly food when other resources, such as school lunches and after-school meals or snacks, are not available. Backpacks are discreetly distributed to participating children at schools on Fridays and helps provide the proper nutrition necessary for overall growth, physical and cognitive development and satisfactory performance in school.

Second Harvest selects and obtains the food for our sites and volunteers assemble individual bags for distribution. Each backpack contains enough items for multiple breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks.

If you have questions about the program, please contact  Manager of Programs, Gerry Weiss 814-459-3663 ext. 116 or by email at gweiss@nwpafoodbank.org.

How can you help?

Make a donation. Monetary donations are gratefully accepted to help maintain our BackPack Program. You may donate online or by check.